1. Simile
“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me”
(II. 1. 6.)
2. Rhetorical question
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
(II. 1. 33-34)
3. Simile
“Moves like a ghost”
(II. 1. 56)
4. Onomatopoeia
“Knock, knock, knock”
(II.3.2-3)
5. Allusion
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
(II. 2. 60-61)
6. Metaphor
“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman”
(II.2.3)
7. Allusion
“The Lord’s anointed temple”
(II.3.60)
8. Juxtaposition
“Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes”
(II. 3. 23-24)
9. Hyperbole
“Now o’er the one half world nature seems dead”
(II.1.49-50)
10. Apostrophe
“Thou sure and grim-set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk “
(II.1.56-57)
11. Pun
“I’ll gild the faces of the groom withal; for it must seem their guilt”
(II. 2. 56-57)
12. Pathos
“Oh Banquo, Banquo, our royal master’s murdered!”
(II.3.79)
13. Euphemism
“I believe drink gave thee the lie last night”
(II.3.30)
14. Personification
“…and yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp”
(II.4.7)
15. Irony
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at a killed”
(II.14.12-13)
16. Isocolon
“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold”
(II.2.1)
17. Dramatic Irony
“T’was a rough night”
(II.3.53)
18. Imagery
“Thy blade and dungeon gouts of blood”
(II.1.46)
19. Soliloquoy
“Is this a dagger which I see before me… words to the heat of deeds to cold breath gives”
(II.1.33-61)
20. Epistrophe
“This is a sorry sight/ A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight”
(II.2.21-22)
21. Paradox
“I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”
(II.1.35)
22. Apostrophe
“I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan”
(II.2.62-63)
23. Personification
“Wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep”
(II.1.50-51)
24. Satire
“Marry, sir, nose painting, sleep, and urine…in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him”
(II. 3. 23-29)
25. Epistrophe
“the spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopped; the very source of it is stopped”
(II.4.90-91)
26. Logos
“Threescore and ten I can remember well; within the volume of which time I have seen hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night hath trifled former knowings”
(II.4.1-4)
27. Ethos
"Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done't.
(II.2.15-16)
28. Rhetorical Question
"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?"
(II.1.45-46)
29. Metaphor
"The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,/ Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,/ Chief nourisher in life's feast--"
(II.2.49-51)
30. Motif (of fair is foul, and foul is fair)
"My hands are of your color, but I shame/ To wear a heart so white."
(II.2.79-80)
31. Parallelism
"it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to;"
(II.3.45-46)
32. Elegy
"Had I but died an hour before this chance,/ I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,/ there's nothing serious in mortality/All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;/ The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees/ Is left this vault to brag of."
(II.3.116-121)
33. Logos
"who could refrain,/ That had a heart to love, and in that heart/ Courage to make 's love known?"
(II.3.145-147)
34. Motif (fair is foul, and foul is fair)
"There's daggers in men's smiles"
(II.3. 176)
35. Asyndeton
"Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience..."
(II.4.19-20)
36. Deductive Reasoning
"Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,/ Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them/ Suspicion of the deed.
(II.4.32-34)
37. Imagery
"The night has been unruly: where we lay,/ Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,/ Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,/ And prophesying with accents terrible/ Of dire combustion and confused events/ New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird/ Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth/ Was feverous and did shake."
(II.3.69-76)
38. Conceit
" the sleeping and the dead /Are but as pictures:/ 'tis the eye of childhood/That fears a painted devil."
(II.2.69-71)
39. Hyperbole
"some say, the earth/Was feverous and did shake. "
(II.3.48-49)
40. Rhyming Couplets
" The night has been unruly: where we lay/Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say.."
(II.3.43-44)
1. Simile
“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me”
(II. 1. 6.)
2. Rhetorical question
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
(II. 1. 33-34)
3. Simile
“Moves like a ghost”
(II. 1. 56)
4. Onomatopoeia
“Knock, knock, knock”
(II.3.2-3)
5. Allusion
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
(II. 2. 60-61)
6. Metaphor
“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman”
(II.2.3)
7. Allusion
“The Lord’s anointed temple”
(II.3.60)
8. Juxtaposition
“Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes”
(II. 3. 23-24)
9. Hyperbole
“Now o’er the one half world nature seems dead”
(II.1.49-50)
10. Apostrophe
“Thou sure and grim-set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk “
(II.1.56-57)
11. Pun
“I’ll gild the faces of the groom withal; for it must seem their guilt”
(II. 2. 56-57)
12. Pathos
“Oh Banquo, Banquo, our royal master’s murdered!”
(II.3.79)
13. Euphemism
“I believe drink gave thee the lie last night”
(II.3.30)
14. Personification
“…and yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp”
(II.4.7)
15. Irony
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at a killed”
(II.14.12-13)
16. Isocolon
“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold”
(II.2.1)
17. Dramatic Irony
“T’was a rough night”
(II.3.53)
18. Imagery
“Thy blade and dungeon gouts of blood”
(II.1.46)
19. Soliloquoy
“Is this a dagger which I see before me… words to the heat of deeds to cold breath gives”
(II.1.33-61)
20. Epistrophe
“This is a sorry sight/ A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight”
(II.2.21-22)
21. Paradox
“I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”
(II.1.35)
22. Apostrophe
“I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan”
(II.2.62-63)
23. Personification
“Wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep”
(II.1.50-51)
24. Satire
“Marry, sir, nose painting, sleep, and urine…in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him”
(II. 3. 23-29)
25. Epistrophe
“the spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopped; the very source of it is stopped”
(II.4.90-91)
26. Logos
“Threescore and ten I can remember well; within the volume of which time I have seen hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night hath trifled former knowings”
(II.4.1-4)
27. Ethos
"Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done't.
(II.2.15-16)
28. Rhetorical Question
"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?"
(II.1.45-46)
29. Metaphor
"The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,/ Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,/ Chief nourisher in life's feast--"
(II.2.49-51)
30. Motif (of fair is foul, and foul is fair)
"My hands are of your color, but I shame/ To wear a heart so white."
(II.2.79-80)
31. Parallelism
"it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to;"
(II.3.45-46)
32. Elegy
"Had I but died an hour before this chance,/ I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,/ there's nothing serious in mortality/All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;/ The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees/ Is left this vault to brag of."
(II.3.116-121)
33. Logos
"who could refrain,/ That had a heart to love, and in that heart/ Courage to make 's love known?"
(II.3.145-147)
34. Motif (fair is foul, and foul is fair)
"There's daggers in men's smiles"
(II.3. 176)
35. Asyndeton
"Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience..."
(II.4.19-20)
36. Deductive Reasoning
"Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,/ Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them/ Suspicion of the deed.
(II.4.32-34)
37. Imagery
"The night has been unruly: where we lay,/ Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,/ Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,/ And prophesying with accents terrible/ Of dire combustion and confused events/ New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird/ Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth/ Was feverous and did shake."
(II.3.69-76)
38. Conceit
" the sleeping and the dead /Are but as pictures:/ 'tis the eye of childhood/That fears a painted devil."
(II.2.69-71)
39. Hyperbole
"some say, the earth/Was feverous and did shake. "
(II.3.48-49)
40. Rhyming Couplets
" The night has been unruly: where we lay/Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say.."
(II.3.43-44)